Topix Underground

Yeah this is it. I've hit the wall - figuratively, financially, spiritually, psychologically... If I thought winter was going to last another month I'd have to check myself into some kind of clinic. Layered on top of the perpetual grey and cold, the dirty snow, frozen mud is the stress created of not working in any meaningful way from the end of the year until spring of the next year. And it's like this every year. Some years are easier than others. This one's around average in terms of soul-crushing despair. And every year some weird miracle happens to save us. The best was slipping on the ice and breaking my ankle. Somehow I got a giant check from workmen's comp and I didn't even know I was covered. In fact, that was the only ten minutes in my life I was and I happened to get injured. It was my first day at that job site, first five minutes, dead of winter. A small price to pay, really. I took one for the team.

Jesus and to be locked inside with electronic media, screens everywhere and it's carnage in every direction. Wars, bombings, mass shootings, car ramming. The local news is even scarier. People murdering and robbing too close to home.  Non-stop that shit really puts the zap on your head after a while. It has to have an effect on people to have all of these things presented to all of us everywhere the way it is. This phenomenon of living an inordinate amount of our existence through various electronic devices we have with us every waking moment - simultaneous to living on the plane of reality in our day-to-day activities. It merges and one affects the other and it is shaping us psychologically and affecting our behavior individually and globally. Now were are on the verge of allowing AI to make warfare decisions for nations based on information the program quickly compiles and analyzes from the internet.

Personally, I think it's more than we can handle as a species, generally. I mean certain segments of certain nations, religions and races can. But a large portion of the human population becomes a threat to everyone when given huge destructive potential. That is human nature. It is a constant. The analogy is giving an automatic rifle to a chimpanzee. You may not know what specifically will happen when, but there's huge odds that it's not going to be positive.